A nasty little secret of American democracy is that,in every national election,ballots cast are simply thrown in the garbage.This has occurred for decades,but it reached unprecedented heights in the last two presidential elections.In the 2004 election more than 3,000,000 ballots were never counted.Almost as deep a secret is that people are doing something about it.In NM,citizen activists,demanded change and got it. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)